Vancouver NSA Article of the Week – Stored Trauma

When our bodies experience physical, emotional, or chemical stress that breaches what we can handle, it is imposed on our organs, tissues, and nervous system as stored trauma.  This can cause our bodies to engage a defensive posture, triggering us to move in a direction of physical impairment, a compounding deficiency in adapting to incoming…

The Differences Between Tendonitis and Tendonosis

When you think of tendonitis you imagine pain, burning, and decreased strength and flexibility in an affected area caused by the kind of normal activities you get up to every day.  It’s important for you and your therapist to understand that it’s more likely tendonosis that’s causing these classic symptoms so you can move forward…

The Sympathetic Nervous System Explained

Our Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) increases functions in increments in response to varying levels of activity.  Normal physical and emotional activity yields a normal range of function.  Upon experiencing stress, danger, or threats to our lives, the SNS increases its output respectively with surges of adrenalin, constriction of muscles, and depletion of nerve impulses.  This…